KADASH at Anse a la Barque, Guadeloupe We left Grenada about a month ago, and have been slowly working our way north, through the Windward Islands.  The trip has been largely uneventful, though our attempt to leave Grenada was frustrated when the engine didn’t start – eventually traced to a defective solenoid – and the autopilot stopped working on the passage between Carriacou and Bequia.  With expert advice from Cruising Association members, I soon isolated the faulty contro

Walking to the Boat in Grenada My new book, ‘Diamond Rock’ is published!  ( Diamond Rock (Paul Weston Historical Maritime and Naval Fiction Book 5) eBook : Weston, Paul: Amazon.co.uk : Kindle Store ).  It’s very difficult for authors to self-assess their work, but I’m pleased and grateful that ‘Diamond Rock’ has received some favourable reviews, and pre-orders have been strong. I’ve also been working pretty hard on the prototype of - I’m not sure how to describe it, so I’ll c

Cover of 'Diamond Rock' My new book, ‘Diamond Rock’ is published today.  ( Diamond Rock at Amazon ) It’s very difficult for authors to self-assess their work, but I’m pleased and grateful that ‘Diamond Rock’ has received favourable reviews, and pre-orders have been strong.  One review I was very flattered by was from well known author Damien Lewis ( Damien Lewis ): ‘A gripping tale of swashbuckling derring-do on the high seas. Impeccably researched and wonderfully drawn, with

'Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames' by Canaletto - the Queen's House can be seen between the two wings of the Hospital With my latest book, Diamond Rock , published ( Diamond Rock (Paul Weston Historical Maritime and Naval Fiction Book 5) we spent last weekend in London.  We’re members of the Cruising Association, and as we often do, stayed in one of the ‘cabins’ at the Association’s headquarters at Limehouse.  It’s location, next to the lock between Limeh

Kadash Departing Rabat - Passing the Kasbah of the Udayas I’ve just posted a YouTube video paul weston author sailing - YouTube about...

Cover of 'Diamond Rock' When I wrote my first book, ‘Weymouth Bound’ many years ago, I imagined the main character, Jack Stone, as...

Free at Last! - Mitch on the Etang de Thau From July 2020 to June 2021, during the second Covid lockdown, Mitch lay alongside the bank...

Mitch at a Lock on the Canal du Midi We visited Mitch briefly in January 2020, as an aside from a skiing holiday in the Pyrenees, but any...

Gunner William Rivers' Commonplace Books I recently had the opportunity of examining the ‘commonplace’ books of William Rivers in the...

Pinney's Beach, Nevis Inspiration - you just can’t avoid it – that is if you are a writer of historical naval fiction and you are sailing...

Roadside Bar, Dominica We found that Deshaies in the north of Guadeloupe was an unsatisfactory place, crowded, with a northerly swell...

I have nearly finished writing my new novel “Diamond Rock”.  Without giving too much away, the book is set largely in the Caribbean, in...

Martin and George in Great Sound BVI The British Virgin Islands is a group of islands in the extreme north of the Lesser Antilles.  The...

Vegetable Supermarket, St Lucia On 2nd January we had a horrid trip from Tobago Cays to Bequia, dead to windward, motoring.  With her...

Tobago Cays On 29th December 2024, Kim left Prickly Bay, Grenada bound for Tortola, about 500 miles to the north north west.  Kim could...

Kim Lifted by Grenada Marine's Travelift I was reminded of this line from Henry Newbold’s poem “The Old Superb” when Grenada Marine’s...

Moon Rising Over St Kitts It was early morning* in the Anse Colombier, on the north coast of the small island of St Barthelemy, and...

Entrance to Rabat/Sale - The Kasbah of the Udyas Do the locations inspire the story, or does the story give meaning to the locations?  I...

Options at Port St Louis du Rhone In 2023, when we were working on Kim  at Port Napoleon, we rented an apartment in Port St Louis du...

Kim's Keel It seems to me that if you’re going to have ballast, it may as well be in the right place, and the lifting keel of our...